Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CLI/shells
Message-ID: <3743@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 88 17:44:52 GMT
References: <8805052308.AA05229@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8805052308.AA05229@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>I'm glad people are picking up on the shell idea ... can't wait to see what
>C-A has for us in 1.3 .  I originally wrote my shell for four, and only
>four reasons:
>
>	(1) history (don't have to retype commands I want to repeat)
>	(2) aliases (don't have to remember long argument strings)

so far our reasons are in complete agreement; I hacked up the
C-A shell for this very reason.

>	(3) get rid of that damn blasted #? wildcard crap and replace it 
>	    with something more general (*/?). (ala unix)

Well, I adapted to this one, actually :-)

>	(4) internal shell commands.  Not external, Not rez'd, Not
>	    resident ... internal and hardcoded.  Being just subroutines
>	    such commands usually taken about a dozen longwords of memory
>	    and have no overhead.


I did think about building a lot of the common ones in;
but decided not to for the time being, as resident does
give the functionality of builtin, at a small price in size.

			andy
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